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Vancouver International Airport

Vancouver International Airport is the main airport serving its namesake city of , located on Sea Island within the City of , which is south of Vancouver.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport located in British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “CYVR”, “Vancouver Airport”, “Vancouver International, British Columbia”, and “YVR”
  • Address: 3211 Grant McConachie Way, Richmond, BC

Places of Interest

Highlights include YVR–Airport station and Sea Island Centre station.

Metro station
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YVR–Airport is an elevated station on the Canada Line of 's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located at Vancouver International Airport's main terminal in , and is one of the outbound termini of the Canada Line, the other being .

Metro station
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Sea Island Centre is an at-grade station on the Canada Line of 's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located on in .

Stadium
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The is an indoor multi-sports arena in the city of . The oval was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics and was originally configured with a speed skating rink.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Richmond and Marpole.

Photo: Grotskiii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a riverine city to the south of in the of . Comprising several islands, the city is protected by a system of dikes from the Fraser River's occasional flooding.

Suburb
, originally a Musqueam village named c̓əsnaʔəm, is a mostly residential neighbourhood of 23,832 in 2011, located on the southern edge of the city of , British Columbia, immediately northeast of Vancouver International Airport, and is approximately bordered by Angus Drive to the west, 57th Avenue to the north, Ontario Street to the east and the to the south.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood that comprises most of the urban core of in Metro Vancouver. The area includes community facilities, civic offices, , and the Canada Line terminus.

Vancouver International Airport

Latitude
49.1925° or 49° 11′ 33″ north
Longitude
-123.1792° or 123° 10′ 45″ west
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
YVR
ICAO airport code
CYVR
United Nations Location Code
CA YVR
Open location code
84XR5RVC+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4853395421
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6301485
Wiki­data ID
Q321224
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vancouver International Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vancouver Internasionale Lughawe”
  • Arabic: “مطار فانكوفر الدولي”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu Internacional de Vancouver”
  • Basque: “Vancouverreko nazioarteko aireportua”
  • Bulgarian: “Летище Ванкувър”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport de Vancouver”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport Internacional de Vancouver”
  • Cebuano: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Chinese: “YVR”
  • Chinese: “温哥华国际机场”
  • Chinese: “溫哥華國際機場”
  • Chinese: “溫哥華機場”
  • Czech: “Mezinárodní letiště Vancouver”
  • Czech: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Danish: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Dutch: “YVR”
  • Esperanto: “Internacia Flughaveno Vankuvero”
  • Estonian: “Vancouveri rahvusvaheline lennujaam”
  • Finnish: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Finnish: “Vancouverin kansainvälinen lentoasema”
  • French: “Aéroport de Vancouver”
  • French: “Aeroport international de Vancouver”
  • French: “aéroport international de Vancouver”
  • French: “Aéroport international de Vancouver”
  • French: “CYVR”
  • French: “Vancouver International, Colombie-Britannique”
  • French: “YVR”
  • Galician: “Aeroporto de Vancouver”
  • German: “CYVR”
  • German: “Flughafen Vancouver”
  • German: “Vancouver international Airport”
  • German: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • German: “YVR”
  • Greek: “Διεθνές αεροδρόμιο του Βανκούβερ”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבין-לאומי ונקובר”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי ונקובר”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי של ונקובר”
  • Hindi: “वैंकूवर अन्तरराष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा”
  • Hungarian: “Vancouver nemzetközi repülőtér”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Vancouver”
  • Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Vancouver”
  • Indonesian: “CYVR”
  • Indonesian: “YVR”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Vancouver”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale di Vancouver”
  • Italian: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Japanese: “YVR”
  • Japanese: “バンクーバー国際空港”
  • Japanese: “バンクーバー空港”
  • Kazakh: “Ванкувер әуежайы”
  • Kazakh: “Халықаралық Ванкувер әуежайы”
  • Korean: “CYVR”
  • Korean: “YVR”
  • Korean: “밴쿠버 국제공항”
  • Korean: “벤쿠버 국제공항”
  • Kurdish: “Balafirgeha Navneteweyî ya Vancouverê”
  • Lithuanian: “Vankuverio tarptautinis oro uostas”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Vancouver”
  • Marathi: “व्हँकूव्हर आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “CYVR”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vancouver internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “YVR”
  • Norwegian: “Vancouver internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਂਕੂਵਰ ਕੌਮਾਂਤਰੀ ਹਵਾਈ ਅੱਡਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਨਕੂਵਰ ਕੌਮਾਂਤਰੀ ਹਵਾਈ ਅੱਡਾ”
  • Persian: “CYVR”
  • Persian: “YVR”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین المللی ونکوور”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین‌المللی ونکوور”
  • Piemontese: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Vancouver”
  • Polish: “YVR”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional de Vancouver”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional de Vancôver”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Vancouver”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Vancouver”
  • Russian: “Ванкувер”
  • Russian: “Ванкуверский международный аэропорт”
  • Russian: “международный аэропорт Ванкувера”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Ванкувер”
  • Serbian: “Међународни аеродром Ванкувер”
  • Slovak: “Medzinárodné letisko Vancouver”
  • Slovak: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Vancouver”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Vancouver”
  • Spanish: “CYVR”
  • Spanish: “YVR”
  • Swedish: “Vancouver airport”
  • Swedish: “Vancouver flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Vancouver International Airport”
  • Swedish: “Vancouvers flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Vancouvers internationella flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Байн‌алмиллалии Ванкувер”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи бин‌алмилалӣ внкувр”
  • Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานนานาชาติแวนคูเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Vancouver Uluslararası Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Ванкувер Міжнародний аеропорт”
  • Ukrainian: “Ванкувер”
  • Ukrainian: “міжнародний аеропорт Ванкувер”
  • Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт Ванкувер”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Vancouver”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Vancouver”
  • Yue Chinese: “溫哥華國際機場”

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